Knox College to Honor Alumni at Founders Day Ceremony

Knox College will honor three of its alumni for their distinguished careers in
the College's 2001 Founders Day ceremony at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15 in the
Muelder Reading Room, Seymour Library on the Knox campus in Galesburg, IL. Knox
will present Alumni Achievement Awards to environmentalist Lorraine Johnson
Fleming, historian Maury Klein, and documentary producer Gabriel Rotello. The ceremony
commemorates the 164th anniversary of the founding of Knox College.

Lorraine Johnson Fleming of Wilmington, Delaware, is associate director of
advocacy at the Delaware Nature Society. She has written extensively about
ecology and the environment, including Birds of Delaware" and "Delaware's
Outstanding Natural Areas and their Preservation," a reference book that
surveys of more than 100 locations in Delaware deemed worthy of special
preservation efforts. She was technical director for the film "Countdown for
Natural Areas" and editor of the book "Wildflowers of Delaware and the Eastern
Shore." Fleming attended Knox from 1950 to 1953 and completed her BS in zoology
from Iowa State University in 1954. More:Delaware Nature SocietyDownload photo 300 dpi

Maury Klein of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, is a professor of history at
the University of Rhode Island. He has written more than a dozen books on
American history, with special emphasis on the history of American railroads,
including "The Life and Legend of Jay Gould" and "Union Pacific: The Birth,
1862-1893." Two of his books were nominated for Pulitzer Prizes -- "The
Flowering of the Third America" and "The Life and Legend of E.H. Harriman." He
also has published numerous articles and served as a consultant in historic
preservation. Klein graduated from Knox with a degree in history in 1960. He
received his Ph.D. at Emory University in 1965. More:Maury Klein's booksDownload photo 300 dpi

Gabriel Rotello is a senior producer for World of Wonder, a motion picture
production company based in London and Los Angeles. He won an Emmy Award for
the documentary "Party Monster," and an Audience Award at the Newport Film
Festival for the documentary "The Eyes of Tammy Faye." Rotello also is a
columnist for The Advocate, the national gay and lesbian magazine, and the
author of the controversial and best-selling book "Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the
Destiny of Gay Men." Rotello graduated from Knox with a degree in history in
1974. Currently he is writing another book "Wisecracker: The Life of Billy
Haines," about Hollywood's first openly gay movie star, and producing a weekly
series, "Autopsy," for HBO.More:Gabriel Rotello and the lecture series "Dimensions of Dying and Death"Download photo 300 dpi

Knox College and the City of Galesburg were both founded in 1837 by pioneers
led by the Rev. George Washington Gale. Today, Knox is an independent,
four-year, liberal arts college with 1,200 students from 45 states and 41
nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building
remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.